| Author: | Barbara Bracht Donsky | ISBN: | 9781631520754 |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press | Publication: | May 10, 2016 |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Barbara Bracht Donsky |
| ISBN: | 9781631520754 |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Publication: | May 10, 2016 |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Language: | English |
• According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of US book sales, total sales in the categories of Personal Memoirs, Childhood Memoirs, and Parental Memoirs increased more than 400% between 2004 and 2008, with growth continuing. • Women, especially middle-aged women, are the largest book-buying demographic. There are 157 million women in the United States, and a story about the mother-daughter bond has strong appeal. • Books on death and dying, grief and grieving sell well (Tuesdays with Morrie is the best-selling memoir of all time on Amazon). • 289,00 women die in childbirth annually worldwide. Maternal deaths related to childbirth in the US are at the highest rate in a quarter century, more than triple that in the United Kingdom. • 1 in 7 Americans loses a parent or sibling before the age of 20. (Comfort Zone Camp).
• According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of US book sales, total sales in the categories of Personal Memoirs, Childhood Memoirs, and Parental Memoirs increased more than 400% between 2004 and 2008, with growth continuing. • Women, especially middle-aged women, are the largest book-buying demographic. There are 157 million women in the United States, and a story about the mother-daughter bond has strong appeal. • Books on death and dying, grief and grieving sell well (Tuesdays with Morrie is the best-selling memoir of all time on Amazon). • 289,00 women die in childbirth annually worldwide. Maternal deaths related to childbirth in the US are at the highest rate in a quarter century, more than triple that in the United Kingdom. • 1 in 7 Americans loses a parent or sibling before the age of 20. (Comfort Zone Camp).
